While islands form in a multitude of ways, the two most common ways are volcanic activity and continental drift. They can also be formed through erosion, piling up of sediment and corals that shoot out of the water's surface. Here we take a look at ...

Hockey India president will face stiff challenge from European counterparts, but says he has covered all bases for FIH president polls. In the last one month, Narinder Batra has jet-setted across 50 countries. And by this weekend, he hopes to have ...

From the creator: Continental drift is common knowledge now, but when the idea was first proposed it was revolutionary. Helen Czerski tells the story of how the maps of one of history's finest cartographers shifted our view of the planet. In ...

International land and global offshore rig demand continues to drift lower, as markets seek to rebalance. The North American land rig market is slowly improving, after finding a cyclical bottom in late May. This year's NOV Annual Rig Census gave us ...

Alexander Bueso (ShareCast News) - European stocks finished the week on a flat note despite an unusual flurry of news on the mergers and acquisitions front, with the euro still under pressure against the dollar following European Central Bank chief ...

Novartis will shut down an R&D facility in China and move a second from Singapore to the U.S. as part of a wide-ranging revamp of its research base. Under the plan, Novartis will createtwo new research hubs near its headquarters in Basel and in ...

It's even colder than usual in Alaska right now. And the continental 48 states are about to get a taste of that. A buildup of cold air over Alaska has been causing temperatures to plummetfar below average. Climatologist Brian Brettschneider ...